Description of App
Euchre Online is a great way to play your favorite card game with others online. Play as many games as you want for free!
Game Center Multiplayer Games
- Play against 1-3 random opponents
- Invite your friends to a private game
- Climb the global leader board when you win online
- 12 achievements to unlock
- Supports iPhone and iPad
- Upgrade to the full version to communicate with your opponents through the in-game text-based chat feature
Copied from iTunes app description.
Comments
Oh my gosh thank you so much
Oh my gosh thank you so much for this I'm from Indiana and remember playing this on my grandparents I can't believe it's on the iPhone finally awesome
Beginner
I have never played Euchre before. Does this app feature a tutorial or help available within the app to help new users learn to play?
Re: Beginner
Hi,
There is no Tutorial that I can find, though there is a "How to Play" section that lists the rules and strategies.
I imagine there are more in-depth lists of rules online. The trick is to get your head wrapped around the concept of a "trump suit" - whatever suit is trump, if played in a trick, will "trump" all the others even if it is a 9 of the trump suit and the highest card of the other suit is an Ace. Also the concept of "bowers" - when trump is chosen, say to Hearts for this example, the Jack of Hearts becomes the "right bower", which is the highest card in the game for trump, and the Jack of Diamonds (the other suit of the same color as trump) is the "left bower", which is only below the right bower in terms of power.
Basically there are 5 cards you get and 5 tricks possible in each hand - if your team takes at least 3 of the 5 tricks, you get a point. If the other players called trump and you win with 3+ tricks, you get 2 points.
When the game first starts, the dealer turns up a card - say the 9 of Diamonds. The Pass/Order Trump options are whether you think you have a good enough hand to make that particular suit trump. If yu are the dealer and someone else "Orders you up" you have to pick that card up and discard another in your hand. If everone passes that card that was turned up, then it goes through all the players to see if anyone wants to declare trump. (You can "Pass" or "Make trump" whatever suit you think you have the best cards for.) When you make/order trump, it will ask if youw ant to "Go Alone" or "Partnered". Always choose Partnered unless you have a really really good hand (both bowers, for example, and high valued off-trump cards.) Going alone means your partner sits out and you have to do it alone. If you win, though, you get 4 points, I believe.
This game has a "Single Player" mode you can practice with until you're better at it, too, though I've yet to have a real player stay for the entire 10-point game in the multi-player mode. It is not a game you can do a turn and then wander away - it expects you to actively be playing the card game, I believe.
Oh, also:
When the trump suit is chosen, it re-orders your cards so that the trump is at the bottom (swiping all the way right) with the highest valued trump cards at the very bottom. So if you had the right/left bower, it'd show there. It is helpful to remember which suit is trump on the fly and to see whether you have any of that trump left.
This is also a "partner" game - you are playing with a partner. So there are strategies involving your partner too - IE do not trump your partner's Ace (IE, if it looks like your partner is going to win a hnd/trick without the use of trump, save the trump card for a different trick.)
Developer Email
If anyone can find the email for this developer, I'd appreciate it - I tried clicking on "Euchre Online Support" in the app store link, though the resulting page it goes to does not seem to list any email or contact info.
I saw references to users having emailed the devs in the comments on game, though, so there must be some way to do it (unless it was removed recently.)